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....what's the worst mistake you've made whilst playing out / on radio?

I haven't been playing on radio for long so I'm sure there's some shockers still to come. At the moment though I think mine has to be switching from line to phono (mistook it for the headphone dooda) mid mix resulting in the ads, which were still rolling on one of the cdjs, burst on. Tunes went well out, flopped the mix and then I was left standing there feeling rather embarrassed about whole situation..

dropped kromestar - pass the light with the gain a bitttttt too high and blew the damn circuit or some shit, took 5 minutes to get it sorted. yikes! never make that mistake again lol

LOL! "Larging up the dodgy mixer"

Hitting play on the wrong CDJ, standard

brokedjs wrote:Hitting play on the wrong CDJ, standard

Hitting EJECT on the wrong CDJ.

LA_Boxers wrote:

brokedjs wrote:Hitting play on the wrong CDJ, standard

Hitting EJECT on the wrong CDJ.

yeah i've done that before very embarrassing
knocked the needle off the decks a few times too

What about high profile djs? Anyone witnessed any disasters?

lol yeah I've hit eject on the wrong CDJ before, I quite like it as far as mistakes go though, it has a certain humbling charm when people do it i think and you can have a little laugh with the crowd.

indeed. the couple of times i've been using cdj's and turntables, my mind can't seeem to deal with the lefts and rights and I've hit stop on the wrong turntable and turned down the wrong channel...embarrassing

Stupidly placed the next record on top of the mixer, at the same time placing it onto the tone arm of the deck currently playing. Needle landed back down with a great thud and about a minute earlier than it previously was

Preacha wrote:

LA_Boxers wrote:

brokedjs wrote:Hitting play on the wrong CDJ, standard

Hitting EJECT on the wrong CDJ.

yeah i've done that before very embarrassing
knocked the needle off the decks a few times too

Ha ha I did that while I was packing my stuff away and the next guys were playing.

Mixing the same record you just took played 3 songs back. Drunkenness.

I mate of mine let a tune spin out 2 times in a set. Alcohol is not your friend.

promo wrote:

Preacha wrote:

LA_Boxers wrote:

brokedjs wrote:Hitting play on the wrong CDJ, standard

Hitting EJECT on the wrong CDJ.

yeah i've done that before very embarrassing
knocked the needle off the decks a few times too

Ha ha I did that while I was packing my stuff away and the next guys were playing.

joeki wrote:Mixing the same record you just took played 3 songs back. Drunkenness.

I mate of mine let a tune spin out 2 times in a set. Alcohol is not your friend.

LOL, that 20 second pause as you try to remember if you played it already..

picking the wrong needle up of the wrong record = shit loads of embaresment.....

anybody notice how your brain works so much slower when you fuck up aswell.... u just stand there like, errr.... what to do now..... best put the needle back on & get some music rollin again.

worst thing to do is sport the "i fucked up face". just roll thru with confidence as if that mega clang is a contemporary left field form of mixing that plebs simply dont know about.

Soiled myself at a house party.

aleks zen wrote:worst thing to do is sport the "i fucked up face". just roll thru with confidence as if that mega clang is a contemporary left field form of mixing that plebs simply dont know about.

On a trip to Prague a few years ago, a mate blagged me onto the decks in a pretty large club (no idea what it was called now) telling them i was some badass UK DJ, the guys there were playing tech-house and said yeah come up and mix a couple of tunes - I grabbed a random record, mixed it in perfectly... only to then temporarily forget my sense of left and right and take the needle off the tune I'd just mixed in, plunging the club into silence.

cogidubnus wrote:On a trip to Prague a few years ago, a mate blagged me onto the decks in a pretty large club (no idea what it was called now) telling them i was some badass UK DJ, the guys there were playing tech-house and said yeah come up and mix a couple of tunes - I grabbed a random record, mixed it in perfectly... only to then temporarily forget my sense of left and right and take the needle off the tune I'd just mixed in, plunging the club into silence.

u shoulda started singing down the mic "who likes short shorts?!" amidst the silence. works every time.